Civil Right Quotes · Page 9

My dad was a civil rights lawyer, and he was actually defending conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War.

— Cecile Richards

…we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

— Kathryn Stockett

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

— Anonymous

To have a show have lawyers fighting civil rights cases week in and week out, I think it's exactly what we need.

— Danny Strong

Stop and frisk - whether done while walking down the street or while driving a car - is a civil rights violation.

— Chesa Boudin

The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead…

— Luis Gutierrez

You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.

— Andrew Aydin

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

— James Hansen

What is interesting is that John Lewis actually got interested initially in the civil rights movement because of a comic book. So…

— Daniel H. Pink

Because when we look at the modern civil rights movement under the leadership of my father and the team that he developed,…

— Martin Luther King III

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under…

— H. L. Mencken

Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is…

— Pat Buchanan

When I was younger, I had these romantic ideas about the Black Panther Party and what it meant to be a part…

— Patrisse Cullors

There are many photos of Catholic priests and nuns marching in the Civil Rights movement, most notably at the March on Selma,…

— Anthea Butler

In the 1950s, the black men and women and their white allies who fought for civil rights and basic human dignity could…

— Joy Reid

Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have…

— Andrew Aydin

Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody ... Not just for blacks and…

— Barack Obama

“Rakitin doesn't understand it, all he wants is to build his house and rent out rooms...Life is simple for Rakitin: 'You'd do…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the…

— Sena Jeter Naslund

“Today, by contrast, students explode over imagined slights that are not even remotely in the same category as fighting for civil rights…

— Thomas M. Nichols

The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture…

— R.J. Rushdoony

“Edmond Locard ordered all the local organ grinders and their simian employees brought to his laboratory. A number of the monkeys, perhaps…

— E.J. Wagner

“Look, dude, you've sampled your life, mixed those sounds with a funk precedent, and established a sixteen-bar system of government for the…

— Paul Beatty

“Allow me to explain. Social Justice can mean many things. Gay rights, minority rights, women's rights — all good civil rights stuff.…

— T.J. Kirk

The fight for civil rights did not end when Donald Trump was elected president. We've got work to do.

— Christopher Jackson

I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.

— Amber Hollibaugh

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

— Al Franken

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

— Nat Hentoff

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in…

— Bruce Hornsby

As president, I won't just continue to defend women's civil rights from political attacks - I'll make guaranteeing those rights a priority.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

“God bless mood equalizers. and all moods are created equal. i am the fucking civil rights movement of moods”

— John Green

Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law.

— Donald Trump

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.

— Mike Quigley

I always wondered why there weren't any films about Cesar Chavez. There are movies about other civil rights leaders in this country,…

— Diego Luna

The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.

— Jacqueline Woodson

What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a…

— Elizabeth Holmes

It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you…

— Annie Laurie Gaylor

By the early 1960s, there was a moral consensus on what needed to be done on civil rights.

— H. W. Brands

No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.

— Kenya Barris